Gaming Law, as a Family

 

They were featured in ULVN Law magazine in the following article:

 

Alannah T. Ariel first developed a fascination for gaming while growing up in Arizona, where family card games were a regular occurrence and her grandmother dealt knowledge with the same enthusiasm as she did a hand of seven-card stud. "She didn't teach us how to sew," Ariel recalls. "She taught us how to play poker. And we did not go to Disneyland for vacations. We went to Las Vegas!"

 

Which explains why, when the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law established a master's program (LL.M.) in gaming law and regulation in 2016, Ariel was as anxious to enroll in the inaugural class as she would be scooping up a pot after winning a poker hand. Having already earned her Juris doctor from the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Ariel attended Boyd full time in 2015-16, completing the 24-credit program in a year.

 

"I learned all about gaming's ins and outs and all the newest [gaming-related legal] issues that were at the forefront at that time," Ariel says.

 

Her Boyd experience was so positive, in fact, that Ariel convinced two fellow law school graduates to follow in her footsteps: her sister, Linda, and their father, Richard, both of whom earned an LL.M. in gaming law and regulation in 2017...